SI 618 Homework 3
Nishan Bose
Wednesday 01 April 2015
Getting Data from SQLite Database
In the data preparation step, a SQLite database has been created and populated with vehicle data. Now the data in the database is retrieved using R package DBI and RSQLite and stored in a data frame named vehicles. Here are the first 10 rows of the data frame, and the summary.
## year make model vclass cylinders displ
## 1 1985 Alfa Romeo Spider Veloce 2000 Two Seaters 4 2.0
## 2 1985 Ferrari Testarossa Two Seaters 12 4.9
## 3 1985 Dodge Charger Subcompact Cars 4 2.2
## 4 1985 Dodge B150/B250 Wagon 2WD Vans 8 5.2
## 5 1993 Subaru Legacy AWD Turbo Compact Cars 4 2.2
## 6 1993 Subaru Loyale Compact Cars 4 1.8
## 7 1993 Subaru Loyale Compact Cars 4 1.8
## 8 1993 Toyota Corolla Compact Cars 4 1.6
## 9 1993 Toyota Corolla Compact Cars 4 1.6
## 10 1993 Toyota Corolla Compact Cars 4 1.8
## trany city08 highway08 combo08
## 1 Manual 5-spd 19 25 21
## 2 Manual 5-spd 9 14 11
## 3 Manual 5-spd 23 33 27
## 4 Automatic 3-spd 10 12 11
## 5 Manual 5-spd 17 23 19
## 6 Automatic 3-spd 21 24 22
## 7 Manual 5-spd 22 29 25
## 8 Automatic 3-spd 23 26 24
## 9 Manual 5-spd 23 31 26
## 10 Automatic 4-spd 23 30 25## year make model vclass
## Min. :1984 Length:35719 Length:35719 Length:35719
## 1st Qu.:1990 Class :character Class :character Class :character
## Median :1999 Mode :character Mode :character Mode :character
## Mean :1999
## 3rd Qu.:2008
## Max. :2016
## cylinders displ trany city08
## Min. : 2.000 Min. :0.600 Length:35719 Min. : 6.00
## 1st Qu.: 4.000 1st Qu.:2.200 Class :character 1st Qu.:15.00
## Median : 6.000 Median :3.000 Mode :character Median :17.00
## Mean : 5.743 Mean :3.328 Mean :17.54
## 3rd Qu.: 6.000 3rd Qu.:4.300 3rd Qu.:20.00
## Max. :16.000 Max. :8.400 Max. :53.00
## highway08 combo08
## Min. : 9.00 Min. : 7.00
## 1st Qu.:20.00 1st Qu.:16.00
## Median :23.00 Median :19.00
## Mean :23.68 Mean :19.79
## 3rd Qu.:27.00 3rd Qu.:22.00
## Max. :61.00 Max. :53.00Converting to Factors
To make downstream analysis easier, we convert the data in columns vehicles\(make, vehicles\)vclass, vehicles\(cylinders, and vehicles\)trany into factors. Here is the summary of the data frame after the conversion.
## year make model
## Min. :1984 Chevrolet: 3635 Length:35719
## 1st Qu.:1990 Ford : 2958 Class :character
## Median :1999 Dodge : 2465 Mode :character
## Mean :1999 GMC : 2306
## 3rd Qu.:2008 Toyota : 1821
## Max. :2016 BMW : 1518
## (Other) :21016
## vclass cylinders displ
## Compact Cars : 5160 4 :13596 Min. :0.600
## Subcompact Cars : 4643 6 :12522 1st Qu.:2.200
## Midsize Cars : 4035 8 : 7938 Median :3.000
## Standard Pickup Trucks : 2354 5 : 759 Mean :3.328
## Sport Utility Vehicle - 4WD: 2090 12 : 505 3rd Qu.:4.300
## Two Seaters : 1734 3 : 195 Max. :8.400
## (Other) :15703 (Other): 204
## trany city08 highway08 combo08
## Automatic 4-spd:11035 Min. : 6.00 Min. : 9.00 Min. : 7.00
## Manual 5-spd : 8252 1st Qu.:15.00 1st Qu.:20.00 1st Qu.:16.00
## Automatic 3-spd: 3151 Median :17.00 Median :23.00 Median :19.00
## Manual 6-spd : 2206 Mean :17.54 Mean :23.68 Mean :19.79
## Automatic (S6) : 2201 3rd Qu.:20.00 3rd Qu.:27.00 3rd Qu.:22.00
## Automatic 5-spd: 2179 Max. :53.00 Max. :61.00 Max. :53.00
## (Other) : 6695Filter Down Data
We will filter down the data such that only ‘VClass’ with more than 40 vehicles are kept. Here is the summary of the data frame after this subsetting step.
## year make model
## Min. :1984 Chevrolet: 3633 Length:35708
## 1st Qu.:1990 Ford : 2958 Class :character
## Median :1999 Dodge : 2465 Mode :character
## Mean :1999 GMC : 2302
## 3rd Qu.:2008 Toyota : 1821
## Max. :2016 BMW : 1518
## (Other) :21011
## vclass cylinders displ
## Compact Cars : 5160 4 :13594 Min. :0.600
## Subcompact Cars : 4643 6 :12518 1st Qu.:2.200
## Midsize Cars : 4035 8 : 7933 Median :3.000
## Standard Pickup Trucks : 2354 5 : 759 Mean :3.328
## Sport Utility Vehicle - 4WD: 2090 12 : 505 3rd Qu.:4.300
## Two Seaters : 1734 3 : 195 Max. :8.400
## (Other) :15692 (Other): 204
## trany city08 highway08 combo08
## Automatic 4-spd:11026 Min. : 6.00 Min. : 9.00 Min. : 7.00
## Manual 5-spd : 8250 1st Qu.:15.00 1st Qu.:20.00 1st Qu.:16.00
## Automatic 3-spd: 3151 Median :17.00 Median :23.00 Median :19.00
## Manual 6-spd : 2206 Mean :17.54 Mean :23.68 Mean :19.79
## Automatic (S6) : 2201 3rd Qu.:20.00 3rd Qu.:27.00 3rd Qu.:22.00
## Automatic 5-spd: 2179 Max. :53.00 Max. :61.00 Max. :53.00
## (Other) : 6695Fuel Economy of Vehicles of Different Makes
For each vehicle class in filtered down data, we plot the mean combined MPG (average of data in vehicles$comb08) for each vehicle maker every year. And then, we compute at the mean combined MPG in all years for each vehicle maker, and plot it. Both charts are created with ggplot(). Note how the vehicle makers are ranked in the second plot.
